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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology : Theory, Methods, Evidence / ed. by Sven Kotowski, Ingo Plag.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistische Arbeiten Series
- Linguistische Arbeiten , 0344-6727 ; 586
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VI, 303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together cutting-edge research on the semantic properties of derived words and the processes by which these words are derived. To this day, many of these processes remain under-researched and the nature of meaning in derivational morphology remains ill-understood. All eight articles have an empirical focus and rely on carefully collected sets of data. At the same time, the contributions represent a broad variety of approaches. Several contributions deal with specific problems of the pairing of form and meaning, such as the rivalry between nominalizing suffixes or the semantic categories encoded by conversion pairs. Other articles tackle the more general question of how meaning is organized, e.g. whether there is evidence for the paradigmatic organization of derived words or the reality of the inflection-derivation dichotomy. The contributions feature innovative methodologies, such as representing lexical meaning as word distribution or predicting semantic properties by means of analogical algorithms. This volume offers new and highly interesting insights into how complex words mean, and offers directions for future research in an oft-neglected field.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The semantics of derivational morphology: Introduction
- Ghost aspect and double plurality: On the aspectual semantics of eventive conversion and -ing nominalizations in English
- Eventualities in the semantics of denominal nominalizations
- The meaning of zero nouns and zero verbs
- Analogical modeling of derivational semantics: Two case studies
- Semantic rivalry between French deverbal neologisms in -age, -ion and -ment
- Quantifying semantic relatedness across base verbs and derivatives: English out-prefixation
- Distributional evidence for derivational paradigms
- Splitting ‐ly's: Using word embeddings to distinguish derivation and inflection
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783111074917
- 3111074919
- OCLC:
- 1374520774
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